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This page is primarily **advertising and poetry**, not political satire. The dominant content includes advertisements for Van Houten's Cocoa (a Dutch chocolate brand claiming international awards) and Sapolio soap, positioned around lighter filler content. The brief jokes/anecdotes scattered throughout address minor social topics: a pastor dismissed for organizing a baseball benefit (mocking clerical propriety), Kansas farmers bartering corn for circus admission (rural economics humor), and a reference to "Poor Kemmler" being "avenged" by quarreling scientists—likely referencing William Kemmler, executed by electric chair in 1890, with scientists debating electrocution's validity. The substantial poetic piece "Maxinkuckee" (a lake in Indiana) is nostalgic nature verse about summer romance—typical Judge filler material. There's a self-promotional section encouraging advertisers to use Judge magazine, claiming its intelligent readership and artistic presentation. Overall, this appears to be a standard Judge issue mixing light humor, advertising, and sentimental verse rather than sharp political commentary.

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JUDGE an a ao PURE, SOLUBLE, Delicious. INCOMPARABLE HouTEN's “Best & Goes Farthest—Largest Sale in the World—Once Tried, Always Used.” meme | OVVVVVVVVVV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV QAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE FOREMOST COCOA OF EUROPE, THE GOMING ONE OF AMERICA, Easily Digested—Made Instantly. THE PRINCIPAL EXHIBITIONS, The Original—Take no other. HIGHEST AWARDS AT TA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAALS VV" 3 J14V Yd WOONI ° Poor Kemmler is avenged. ‘The eminent scientists who roasted him are now roasting each other.—Chicago | Inter-Ocean, Simonson —"' I'm very proud of that horse. He only lost one race the whole of last season.” Swift—"' You don’t say so! How many times was he entered?” Simonson (reluctantly)—" Once."—American Grocer. A Rockland, N. Y., pastor has been dismissed be- cause he announced from his pulpit a game of base-ball for the benefit of his church. It is understood that he has already received a call from Chicago.—Kansas City Star, It took five bushels of corn to get into a circus in Kansas last summer. ‘This summer you can get into the main tent, stay to the concert, go to the side show, and get a picture of the Circassian beauty all for one bushel.— Wichita Eagle. Jack Pott (with malice aforethought) —"*I congratu- late your partner on her figure, old man, But’ why does she choose such an unbecoming mask?" Emery Hugh (innocently) —"" She hasn't any mask on.” Jack Pott (raising his glass again) —" What! is that her face?"—Dry Goods Chronicle. Congressman Whiting, in a Free Press interview, is, made to relate a thrilling tale of how he came very near slapping Speaker Reed's face. With the aid of a step- ladder Whiting might possibly be able to reach the speaker's face. Let the speaker beware when he sees Whiting going around with a step-ladder on his arm and revenge in his buzzum.—Detroit Tribune. INCLUDE (TOS as WHEN GETTING ESTIMATES OR PLACING YOUR FALL AND WINTER ADVERTISING YOU WILL MAKE A GREAT MISTAKE IF YOU Do NOT —-f INCLUDE JUDGE t-— UDGE excels advertisingly because it places all ad- vertisements in good company ; circulates wherever intelligent people exist, and displays all announce- ments with artistic effectiveness and skillful, time- bought judgment. ITS IDEA CORPS ALWAYS AT THE SERVICE OF ADVERTISERS. Judge Publishing Company, Judge Building, Fifth Avenue & 16th Sireet, New York. | | MAXINKUCKEE, The green below and the blue above !— ‘The waves caressing the shores they love, Sails in haven, and sails afar And faint as the water-lilies are In inlets haunted of willow wands, Listless rowers, and trailing hands With spray to gem them and tan to glove.— The green below and the blue above. The blue above and the green below! Would that the world were always so !— Always summer, and warmth and light, With mirth and'melody day and night } Birds in the boughs of the beckoning trees, Chirr of locusts, and whiffs of breeze— World-old roses that bud and blow.— The blue above and the green below! The green below and the blue above ! Ueigh ! young hearts and the hopes thereof !— Kate in the hammock and ‘Tom sprawled on ‘The sward—like a lovers'-picture, drawn By the lucky dog himself, with Kate ‘To moon o'er his shoulder and meditate On a fat old purse or a lank young love. — The green below and the blue above. ‘The blue above and the green below ! Shadow and sunshine to and fro.— Season for dreams—whate'er befall Hero, heroine, hearts and all ! Wave or wildwood—the blithe bird sings, And the leaf-hid locust whets his wings— Just as a thousand years ago— The blue above and the green below James Whitcomb Riley in Indianapolis Journal, Contentions are common. breeding ground. Not only | your revival of ‘ Cinderella.” | and an inflamed eye Customer —"* Seems to me that razor is rather dull."* Barber —" Mought be, sah. It was to a pahty las’ night, sah."—Mew York Weekly The average lie has to walk on crutches within a week You have never yet scen the truth in a drug- store trying to buy an artificial limb.—Mitwoaukee Neves. Oh, the size of the sighs a fond lover sighs ‘When some flirt casts him off for a better, Can never size up with the size of the sighs ‘OF the poor luckless one who may get her. —Chicago Post, Chicago actress—""1 should like to have a part in Theatrical manager — “Do you think you can play the part of Cinderella?" Chicago actress —"* No—o ; but I'd do splendidly as one of the sisters whom Cinderella's shoes wouldn't fit."”— New York Week He (sentimentally) —"' It seems almost impossible to be amid these woodland scenes, and not to love—some one.” She (languishingly)—" Indeed it does. The placid lake, the sunlit hills, the shady dells, and the sweet songs of birds, drive from one’s heat! all thought | of what it costs to live respectably.""—Good Neves, Mr, Chugwater (explaining matters to visitors) — * My wife is generally well, but she is suffering to-day from rheumatism, influenza, toothache, a sore thumb, In her case it never rains but it pours.” Mfrs. Chugzater (explaining matters also)— *T don't make any fuss about it, though. I am not like my husband, He never pains but he roars.""— | Chicago Tribune, The kitchen is too often their does the pot call the kettle black, but the mistress with vigorous justice denounces the cook as a “slovenly thing.” From a lack of cleanliness the dishes are poorly cooked, complaints grow common, and dyspepsia gains an entrance. Now, all this might be avoided by purchasing a cake of Sapolio. The best chefs in the country gain their reputation by scrupulous cleanliness and the use of this well-known household article. 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